COURMAS BRITISH CEMETERY
Marne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.18688, Longitude: 3.89937
Image above © Carl Liversage @carl_liversage
Location Information
Courmas is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Reims.
From Reims take the D980 towards Chateau-Thierry and Dormons, passing through the village of Pargny les Reims. After about 8 kilometres turn left along the D6, signposted towards Courmas. On entering the village, turn first right into Rue des Hauts Mur (C11) towards Bouilly, then take the second left into Rue du Pont de Pierre, next to the CWGC direction sign. 30 metres on the right is a small parking area. As the unmade road is not suitable for vehicles, from here walk down the unmade road for 700 metres to the Cemetery.
Historical Information
The cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the neighbouring battlefields and from COURMAS VILLAGE and COURMAS CHATEAU BRITISH CEMETERIES (small cemeteries made by the 62nd (West Riding) Division after the fighting of the 20th July, 1918).
There are 207, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these,77 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to seven British soldiers believed to be buried among them.
The cemetery covers an area of 605 square metres and it is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
Total Burials: 207.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 130.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 77.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
78917 Private
C. B. Raynes
1st/9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
21st July 1918.
Plot I. I. 2.
C. B. Raynes
1st/9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
21st July 1918.
Plot I. I. 2.
British artillery forward observers directing the fire of a battery in the Bois de Reims near Courmas, 12 June 1918.
© IWM (Q 78918)
Battle of Tardenois. Men of the 1/5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (62nd Division) resting in the Bois de Reims, 24 July 1918. © IWM (Q 11095)
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
© Werner Van Caneghem
Battle of Tardenois. Sergeant of the 62nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (62nd Division) bringing back a captured German Maxim 08/15 (Spandau) machine gun. Bois de Reims, 24 July 1918. © IWM (Q 11103)
British, French and Italian wounded at a dressing station in the Bois de Reims during the Battle of the Tardenois, 24 July 1918. © IWM (Q 11114)
